Local Hires Connect to Careers

(L – R) Some of The Carolina team, including Eric Calabrese, Mark Trashaj, Jeannine Britt and Josh Elkin We shared a story on our website last week about Jeannine Britt – one of our local hires from Essex Crossing. Through our partnership with the Lower East Side Employment Network (LESEN), Jeannine is now a full-time [...]

Essex Crossing in Milestones

The roof deck at The Essex The architecture critic of The New York Times Michael Kimmelman published an extensive review of Essex Crossing this week. The article is a stunning reminder that the Essex Crossing we envisioned is coming to fruition. It seems like Essex Crossing has reached milestone after milestone over the [...]

John Jay Student Says ‘Don’t Set a Limit on Where you see Yourself Going.’

Recently The Today Show featured a story about Steven Pacheco, one of the inaugural Moelis Social Entrepreneurship Fellows. Steven is a member of the team that won the 2018 Echoing Green’s The Future of Work Social Innovation Challenge for their app, CONNECTr. The team designed the app, which I’ve mentioned on this blog before, to [...]

John Jay College Social Innovation Fellows Win at 2018 Competition

Joseph Mahmud and Steven Pacheco present CONNECTr, an app to assist formerly incarcerated with employers, at John Jay College in New York City. Last year on this blog I mentioned that I’ve partnered with John Jay College to create the Ron Moelis Social Innovation Fellowship.  The Fellowship is meant to support students who [...]